Is anybody else's CPU having overheating issues since 2.0 update??

[King of Persia]

I have a newly upgraded computer.

CPU: i7-13700F
GPU: AMD RX6800
Fan: Deepcool AK400

Game settings: Mostly Ultra, with all Shadow settings turned down to Medium.

It is ONLY this game which causes the red CPU light on my motherboard to light up and, when I check the temperature it is WAY too hot. This could cause permanent damage on my CPU.

I have also gone into my PC's power management settings and made the Minimum/Maximum processor load to 5%-90%, respectively. STILL overheats.

Has anyone else had this issue? Have you been able to fix it?

[Astral Projection]

Running:

- AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7GHZ
- AMD Radeon RX 6800 16GB

Temps seem normal ...

[HartFalleon]

I'm seeing a number of people surprised by this now where they haven't played a game or run a benchmark where their CPU or other hardware isn't utilized to it's full extent and your air cooler that's fine for other things is pushed to it's limits in this scenario. A dev made a post on Twitter going over how the update is scaling to as much CPU headroom that you have. Obviously that bit of news it seems has not reached everyone interested in playing this game now. An update on the store page or a pinned discussion post from them would help address confusion.

[King of Persia]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Radious:

On my 12900KS temperatures were going high aswell, between 85-90C. What fixed it way simply disable in setting unlimited fps. I was getting like 150-180 frames, PC simply tried to push absolute maximum fps possible.

When changed to 90 max, my temperatures dropped on cpu and gpu by 20 and now is perfectly fine around 65-70 for both cpu and gpu.

This worked perfectly. Limited my fps to 90. I literally cannot tell the difference between 90FPS or higher, and the CPU is no longer overheating, thank you kind sir!

[Radious]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von King of Persia:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Radious:

On my 12900KS temperatures were going high aswell, between 85-90C. What fixed it way simply disable in setting unlimited fps. I was getting like 150-180 frames, PC simply tried to push absolute maximum fps possible.

When changed to 90 max, my temperatures dropped on cpu and gpu by 20 and now is perfectly fine around 65-70 for both cpu and gpu.

This worked perfectly. Limited my fps to 90. I literally cannot tell the difference between 90FPS or higher, and the CPU is no longer overheating, thank you kind sir!

Glad to hear it, yes performance is butter smooth with constant 90 and no more overheating options.

[Zer0]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von King of Persia:

It is ONLY this game which causes the red CPU light on my motherboard to light up and, when I check the temperature it is WAY too hot.

You have inadequate cooling. Limiting FPS, as your marked answer states, is just masking the problem. It's not the game. Your CPU will continue to run too hot every time it's under load.

Don't believe me? Download cinebench and run it. Or prime 95. Watch your CPU start on fire.

A stable PC is one that can run under full load. Avoiding full load to "fix" temps is like driving a car 10 mph to prevent the engine from overheating.

[Radious]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Zer0:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von King of Persia:

It is ONLY this game which causes the red CPU light on my motherboard to light up and, when I check the temperature it is WAY too hot.

You have inadequate cooling. Limiting FPS, as your marked answer states, is just masking the problem. It's not the game. Your CPU will continue to run too hot every time it's under load.

Don't believe me? Download cinebench and run it. Or prime 95. Watch your CPU start on fire.

A stable PC is one that can run under full load. Avoiding full load to "fix" temps is like driving a car 10 mph to prevent the engine from overheating.

Unlimited fps on other hand is pretty much benchmark and will try to push your cpu and gpu to maximum possible limits which obviously goes with much higher temperatures.

My 12900ks is known to run hot but there is no need for me to have 150+ fps and run 80-90 celsius when i can just limit it to 90 and play game fine and no need to push my hardware to the limits. CD projekt said game after 2.0 will try to juice as much as possible from your PC which is good, but no need to stress hardware that much. Cooling or not.

[AWiseCheeto]

I recently got a new PC with a 3080 TI and a 12th gen I9 12900KF. Its liquid cooled and has multiple fans yet with Cyberpunk on high settings without ray tracing my CPU can get to 90C and im wondering if either the thermal paste wasn't installed properly or the cooling system. I've tried looking through some BIOS settings but am not an expert. Does anyone have any suggestions?

[Zer0]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von AWiseCheeto:

I recently got a new PC with a 3080 TI and a 12th gen I9 12900KF. Its liquid cooled and has multiple fans yet with Cyberpunk on high settings without ray tracing my CPU can get to 90C and im wondering if either the thermal paste wasn't installed properly or the cooling system. I've tried looking through some BIOS settings but am not an expert. Does anyone have any suggestions?

I'd replace thermal paste. You want to use isopropyl alcohol to remove the existing paste first - that's important.

You don't need this game to test CPU stability. Either Cinebench or Prime 95 will torture test your CPU faster to test.

That said, some newer CPUs actually target high temps. I know some newer AMDs try to sit at 95 out of the box. I don't use Intel so not sure there.

Be sure to look up expected behavior, incluidng max operating temperature and thermal shutdown temp (one temp lowers clocks, the other cuts power).

[King of Persia]

btw, I figured what was wrong with my CPU overheating....

sooooo it turns out my cooler was facing the wrong way... It was blowing the heat towards the front/inside of the computer case rather than out the back.

So yeah it's fixed now lol.

[THE DEATH]

Just limit to 60 FPS

[Demon Xeron]

It seems there are a few runaway bugs that may affect some systems more than others. I have a pretty old but beefy GPU and whenever I pick up a shard and read it there and then my computer turns into a space heater (Peaked at 85C when I went AFK). When I read from the inventory it literally runs at 55C. Even in some of the more extreme cutscenes or areas of the map I don't reach the same heating. I assume there are quite a few inefficiencies in the code that have yet to be ironed out.
I won't be surprised if this has something to do with the fact that CDPR has probably focused more on that additional story and features and less on optimisation which is a shame for those with less performant GPUs.

[Grid Squares]

This is a known issue that the devs have spoken about. I am running a pretty decent build and still have CPU heat issues when I push the game. When the FPS is limited, to 90 or 60. There is far less CPU use.

No GPU heat issues or any thermal pockets in the case.

i7-13700F (A hot chip as is)
RTX 4070 Ti

Running the game @ 1080p. Anything over 100 FPS heats up the chip.

Some notes read elsewhere.

For laptops, try changing power optimization.

For Win 10/11 builds. Try turning any CPU turbo or boosts off.

Again, best bet is to lock fps to 90 or 60.

Hope this helped.

Best of luck.

[Tokenn]

This game definitely causes your CPU usage to spike, and consequently CPU temperature. On my new rig (i9-13900KF) my temps were hitting 100C during gameplay until I opened up my case for adequate airflow...which dropped them down to around 80C (I have a 3-fan AIO cooler).

After Update 2.0 they dropped to around 70C, although it may be that my computer room isn't experiencing summer temperatures (22-23C) and is now in the 19C-20C range.

[Boddicker]

Constant thermal throttling (from main menu to end) since the recent updates, didn't have that issue before. FPS are fine though on mostly max settings.
It's getting very toasty under my table.

I7 13700k
RTX 4070Ti
arctic liquid freezer II 360

[Zer0]

Anyone else not know how to build a PC? Thermals are your problem, period. Honestly if you think high temps are caused by software bugs you should buy a console.